Anita Sharma is a well-known Sattriya dancer in Guwhati. She started learning Sattriya dance at the age of nine years under the guidance of Late Guru Roseswar Saikia Barbayan, awardees of Sangeet Natak Akademi. After that she received training in Odissi dance under the maestro of Odissi, Padmabhusan Late Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra at Bhubaneswar.
At present, she has devoted herself to learning Sattriya dance under Nrityacharya Jatin Goswami, an awardees of Sangeet Natak Akademi, India.
She is the founder of a rapidly growing Sattriya & Odissi dance institute namely “Abhinaya Dance Academy” in the heart of Guwahati city with many upcoming talents.
Anita performed in various dance compositions under the guidance of Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra .She is an ‘A’ graded artist of Doordarshan Kendra, New Delhi.
She has been awarded a two year Fellowship by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Culture, Government of India for the year 2005-2007.
CREATIONS:
Besides all these, Anita has cut a niche for herself also in the field of choreography. She created “Anubhav”, which is an effort to bring some similarities of Sattriya with Odissi dance. Recently, she made an effort to bring together Sattriya & Kathak dance forms to stage with a new outlook.
PERFORMANCES:
· Performed in Beach Festival, Puri –1994
· Performed in Basistha Festival, Guwahati—1996.
· Performed in Swarnotsav organized by Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi—2000
· Performed in Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi—2002
· Performed in Khajuraho Festival—2002
· Performed in Uday Sankar Dance Festival, Kolkata—2002
· Performed in Sattriya Dance Festival, Guwahati—2001 and 2002
· Performed for DVD making of Indian Classical Dance, organized by Invis Multimedia, Kerala—2003
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· Performed in Nritya Parva organized by Sangeet Natak Akademi,
Guwahati—2003
· Performed in Mahabalipuram Dance Festival, Chennai—2004
· Performed in Sankarajayanti , London, UK—2005
· Performed in World Music Festival organized by Paige Aimi World Peace Foundation,USA—2006
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